https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/fcc-panel-wants-to-tax-internet-... "A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate. If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.The collected money would go into state rural broadband deployment funds that would help bring faster Internet access to sparsely populated areas. Similar universal service fees are already assessed on landline phone service and mobile phone service nationwide. Those phone fees contribute to federal programs such as the FCC's Connect America Fund, which pays AT&T and other carriers to deploy broadband in rural areas." "The state tax proposal comes from the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), a group criticized by San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo—who quit the committee—"for advancing the interests of the telecommunications industry over those of the public." BDAC members include AT&T, Comcast, Google Fiber, Sprint, other ISPs and industry representatives, researchers, advocates, and local government officials."
Without the 20 sequential additive layers of tax, without regulation, zoning, permitting, building codes, government owned rights of way, etc.. all that ridiculous stuff and the propaganda brainwashing propping it up... internet access entrepreneurs and benefactors and rural communities themselves would all have plenty of money and motivation to connect themselves up to the internet. And once you show all those rural landowners how ridiculously inexpensive and easy it is to lay and run fully independant p2p fiber, wifi, optical, and participate in routing node meshes, they'll be happy to bore trench and string their land for and with you. Quit depending on GovCorp to build and enslave you to their fake censored nonredundant social scored cancel you and your crypto internet. Get off your ass and start stringing the next generation distributed redundant multipath p2p internet, individually owned and mesh operated, person to person, house to house, land to land, across the globe. It's cheap, fun, and lockdown proof... freedom :)
Futher, granting right of way to GovCorp in title deeds gives them perpetual right and power, profiting and growing without compensating you, off your stupid decision to grant and to pay them high monthly rent, higher than the cost to build your own, all for the priviledge to rot your brain with their TV programme. 5 years at those rates, converted into a onetime buildout, remainder invested into crypto, will get you both p2p connectivity (rollout today with 1Gbps to 10Gbps fiber links) and node HW upgrades and replacements, for free in perpetuity, with all rights still reserved to you, privately with no GovCorp's involved, and with more freedom for the world. Do the math... crypto guerrilla p2p meshnets ftw! There is no reason not to start building right now today. And when everyone excercises their p2p rights to run servers, fill their barns with nodes if they want, providing distributed censor free unstoppable east-west redundant path platforms to the world... you no longer get centralized problems like what happened today... 30K Websites Down After Google Cloud Outage Internet tracking website NetBlocks confirms the widespread internet outage is "due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering." Downdector reports dozens of major websites began experiencing disruptions or outages around 1240 ET. Users are saying AWS and Google Cloud are down and could be the culprit behind the widespread outage.
And since you already built and perpetually operated this physical underlying p2p guerilla fiber and RF meshnet for free, you can obviously further monetize or benefact it with all sorts of plugins like the two below if you so wish... but you cannot do or gain anything by continuing to beg and subjugate yourself to FCC and GovCorp to do it for you, most certainly not freedom. " "Helium is an interesting project that’s trying to build a completely decentralized 5G infrastructure. Render is… trying to build a completely decentralized graphical processing structure, GPUs essentially. In both of those things, you can quantifiably economically measure what the value is that people get. In the case of Render, you’re basically displacing an AWS [Amazon Web Services] instance. That has a price and a value. For Render to be valuable, there’s an economic value that it replaces. If you’re joining a Hotspot, that has an economic value where you hadn’t necessarily had to pay to get internet connectivity, if you all of a sudden were on the Helium network. That displaces a measurable economic quantum. Understanding that and taking the absolute value of that is the best way of understanding which projects have potential... where is there developer interest and where is there measurable economic activity? At the intersection of those is where the really compelling projects come in." -- Palihapitiya "
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